Tonight, Aimee Mann and Ted Leo team up as The Both for the grande re-opening of The Boot N’ Saddle.
Win Tix To See Spirtualized @ Union Transfer
We have a pair of tix to give away to see psych-rock avatars Spirtualized tonight at Union Transfer! To qualify, all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead). Trust us, this is something you want to do. In addition to breaking news alerts and Phawker updates, you also get advanced warning about groovy concert ticket giveaways and other free swag opportunities like this one! After signing up, send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling us a much, with the words HEY JANE in the subject line. If you are already […]
Dark Horse To Publish Lucas’ First Draft Of History
ASSOCIATED PRESS: A young, idealistic rebel from a desert planet seeks to fight an unjust, tyrannical emperor with a space station capable of destroying planets. “Star Wars” the 1977 film? Not quite. Try “The Star Wars,” the 1974 first draft by George Lucas that, ultimately, turned into the wildly popular film whose cultural resonance remains firmly rooted in popular culture. Now, starting Wednesday, Dark Horse Comics is bringing the original script to life as an eight-issue mini-series – with Lucas’ blessing – giving fans a different take on characters Darth Vader (no helmet), Luke Skywalker (he’s older and a […]
BEING THERE: No Age @ PhilaMOCA
Photo by SEAN CALDWELL Los Angeles art-punk duo No Age played a sold out show last night at PhilaMOCA in support of their new album, An Object. “We love this town,” declared vocalist/drummer Dean Spunt a few songs into their set, drawing a voluble audience response. “It’s been a while.” Spunt and guitarist/singer Randy Randall had bodies in motion — and often in collision with other bodies — from the get go, but things went full-tilt during “Glitter” (from 2010’s Everything In Between) and “Teen Creeps” (from 2008’s Nouns). New songs like “C’mon, Stimmung” and “No Ground” resonated as well […]
WORTH REPEATING: Dream Weaver
EIGHT MILES HIGH IN THE LAND DOWN UNDER In the last year Tame Impala auteur Kevin Parker has gone from trippy bedroom Lonerist to beloved global psych savant. MAGNET journeys to the Land of Oz to press an ear up to his inner speaker. By Jonathan Valania Kevin Parker, the one-man-band psych-rock wunderkind who records under the name Tame Impala, lives across the street from a professional magician (and sword swallower) in a quaint cul-de-sac of houses ringed with lemon trees in Freemantle, a charming seaside town of 25,000 in Western Australia. He shares a granny flat with Melody Prochet, […]
EARLY WORD: Yeezus Christ Superstar
Kanye West will return to the road this fall for THE YEEZUS TOUR – a 23-city North American tour presented by AEG Live – in support of his gold album YEEZUS, the most critically acclaimed new album of 2013 and the 6th consecutive #1 album of his storied career. West – a legendary live performer – combines state-of-the-art staging, production, and lighting design with his unmatched aesthetic, visionary creative mind, and an increasingly impressive catalogue of hits spanning his decade-long career. To date, Kanye West has sold over 21 Million albums and over 66 Million digital tracks worldwide. The seven […]
MUST SEE TV: When Making A Twerking Video For Your Boyfriend Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong
She posted this video, so presumably she is alive and relatively well. UPDATE: Twerking Girl Video Is A Jimmy Kimmel Hoax
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Cats have come a long way from being animals charged with catching mice to treasured, adorable creatures that snuggle with us in our beds. But this relatively new arrangement is creating issues for cats and the people who live with them. John Bradshaw has studied the history of domesticated cats and how the relationship between people and cats has changed. He’s the author of the new book Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, which is a follow-up to his book Dog Sense. Bradshaw is the foundation director of […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See No Age @ PhilaMOCA
We have a pair of tix to give away to see dynamic punk duo No Age perform at @PhilaMOCA on Saturday in support of the just released An Object! To qualify, all you have to do is sign up for our mailing list (see right, below the masthead). Trust us, this is something you want to do. In addition to breaking news alerts and Phawker updates, you also get advanced warning about groovy concert ticket giveaways and other free swag opportunities like this one! After signing up, send us an email at FEED@PHAWKER.COM telling us a much, with the […]
Q&A w/ Comedian John Mulaney, Ex-SNL Writer, Stefon Co-Creator, Couldbe TV Sitcom Star
BY JONATHAN VALANIA As co-creator of the ever-popular Stefon (‘New York’s hottest club is…’) sketch on SNL, comedian John Mulaney is probably better-known for his work behind the camera than in front of it, but that will change soon. Last Friday we got Mulaney on the horn in advance of his appearance at the Dave Chappelle-starring Oddball Fest at the Susquehanna Bank Center tomorrow night. DISCUSSED: Dave Chappelle walking offstage in Hartford, writing for SNL, inventing Stefon, making Bill Hader break character and laugh on live national television, that status of his in-development sitcom Mulaney, co-starring Dana Carvey and […]
MOBY: The Perfect Life (feat. Wayne Coyne)
Moby – The Perfect Life (with Wayne Coyne) from Moby on Vimeo. MOBY: A few weeks ago Wayne [Coyne] and I spent the day making a video for ‘The Perfect Life’. then at the end of the day we broke out an acoustic guitar and gathered all of the extras on a rooftop overlooking L.A and sang an unrehearsed, impromptu version of the song. Please keep in mind we had no idea what we were doing. Wayne Coyne and I ended up doing a duet on ‘The Perfect Life’: we sing the choruses together, and then go back and forth […]
BEING THERE: Made In America
Photo by PETE TROSHAK Made In America, the two day music festival organized by Jay-Z, returned to Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway over Labor Day Weekend. Early in day one, much-buzzed-about sister act Haim impressed the crowd with their unique percussion-heavy mix of 80’s pop and jam band-ian hippie-rock. Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Flava Flav performed their politically charged rap backed by a sizzling live band and delivered one of the best sets of the fest. Public Enemy put their money where their mouth is, announcing that they were donating their payment for the show to the embattled and underfunded […]
SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: Boehner Kill
BY WILLIAM C. HENRY Question: How can you tell if the Speaker of the House is speaking the truth about America’s fiscal situation? Answer: His mouth is closed. Recently, the House of Representatives’ head cockroach hissed that without significant cuts to entitlement programs, negotiations on increasing the debt limit will go nowhere. Although typical of Boehner’s callous, intransigent, extortion-centered, wealthfare approach to governing, John-Boy’s latest nugatory jaunt into the wasteland of Republican recourse is far more enlightening for what it doesn’t say than for what it does. To wit, here’s a partial listing of truly deserving chopping block candidates […]